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6 Steps To Raising Venture Capital – Hint: Preparation Matters More Than Your Pitch

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The steps outlined below represent an ideal approach to raising capital from sophisticated investors. Judiciously comment on articles they post to LinkedIn, retweet their tweets, vote up one of their Quora posts and establish a Google Alert on them and their firm. Unfortunately, your fundraising efforts will be less linear.

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Five Trick Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Answer Before Asking For Money

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For instance, if you anticipate that your venture will require $10 million of investor capital over its life, an exit below $50 million is unlikely to be acceptable target to most VCs. Avoid too much specificity, as you may risk sounding like yet another startup that is, “Waiting For Google.” Avoid stating a specific exit value.

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Five Trick Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Answer Before Asking For Money

InfoChachkie

For instance, if you anticipate that your venture will require $10 million of investor capital over its life, an exit below $50 million is unlikely to be acceptable target to most VCs. Avoid too much specificity, as you may risk sounding like yet another startup that is, “Waiting For Google.” Avoid stating a specific exit value.

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The Best VC Meetings are Debates not Sales

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I’ve sat through a lot of VC pitches and having been CEO of an enterprise software firm for many years I’ve also sat through many customer meetings with sales teams. After the sales meetings I would ask the exec afterward, “how do you think it went?&# We used to do this in our sales slides.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

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NAME Google. The southern migration is taking place as companies like Google. Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million.

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. Google analytics can’t really tell you much - it’s not very actionable.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. Type “personal financial management&# into Google. They achieved all of this before they raised even a penny of venture capital.

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